New Zealand Listener

10 Quick Questions

- by GABE ATKINSON

1. Which South American country’s official currency is the US dollar?

Venezuela

Ecuador

Argentina

Colombia

2. Which of these artists was an important contributo­r to the movement called De Stijl? Frida Kahlo

Paul Cézanne

Georges Seurat

Piet Mondrian

3. Which sportsman said, “You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.” Wayne Gretzky

Michael Jordan

George Best

Steve Davis

4. Which of these is not one of the African Great Lakes? Lake Nasser

Lake Victoria

Lake Tanganyika

Lake Turkana

5. Which pop duo topped the charts in 1987 with the single Respectabl­e?

Pet Shop Boys

The Eurythmics

Hall & Oates

Mel and Kim

6. Which country supplies the most internatio­nal tourists to New Zealand? China

UK

Australia

Japan

7. Where would you find towns without people, forests without birds and rivers without fish? 8. Who wrote a famous poem that begins: “You may write me down in history.”

Emily Dickinson

Maya Angelou

Sylvia Plath

Emily Brontë

9. For which series did NZ censors create the new rating “RP18”?

Game of Thrones 13 Reasons Why Stranger Things Breaking Bad

10. Which of these is not a song recorded by Glenn Campbell?

Southern Nights

Wichita Lineman Rhinestone Cowboy Man of Constant Sorrow

Newspapers in English

Newspapers from New Zealand